Prophecy Update: “The Stage is Set”-Ezekiel 37-39- Don Stewart

happy new year everybody how's new year been so far there's been a a bust or a trust you never heard it that way have you how many of you decided this year i'm trusting jesus and i'll tell you you're going to have the ups and you're going to have the downs and the valleys and the wonderful sunshiny days and in the middle of it all you say what i trust you lord i trust you and how many of you need an introduction to don stewart i didn't think you did but there might be some people online don stewart you can find all of his resources online at educatingourworld.com you hear him on kwave 107.9 fm most days of the week at uh 3 o'clock in the afternoon taking your questions about the netherland and the unforgivable sin and all that and what we're going to try to do tonight after don does the prophecy update we're going to try to leave some time it might be after the service concludes and you go and pick up your children but we want to leave some time if we can if you're up for it and you have questions for questions whenever don decides he's ready for those would you guys please welcome my good friend don stewart it's i'm an honor to serve with you brother god bless you and who would like this baby bottle i'll give this baby bottle to the closest hand that goes in the air okay right there oh there you go don you get it there you go that was easy that's great yeah i'm the closest hi everybody how we doing well happy new year and uh it's always nice to be back here it's been a long time bill since you invited me was it that bad the last time i just oh just because he always says when he's on what he does a great job by the way on pastor's perspective doesn't he no good listen to him and so uh always always love having heaven having bill on he's he comes up with some insights the the pastors that that we have on bill and a couple of the others they come up with stuff i could never in a million years think of because you know you deal with people every day and so i'm thankful for them thankful for you guys for what the lord is doing so much going on okay in a nutshell here uh first of all what we do in this subject is literally humongous and mind-boggling so all you're going to get is a very brief you know explanation i think you get very excited about that of one particular sign of the end some of you know uh that i have a program on it's now three days a week on his channel his channel dot com from 10 to 11 every monday wednesday and thursday if you missed the program you can watch it on video on demand it's called breaking news where i'll be on again tomorrow's on today where we look at the events that are taking place right now on how they fit with bible prophecy i have three hours a week to do this and i end up with probably 75 stories literally each week i can't even get to there's so much going on so obviously in the time we have here i'm going to just kind of hit kind of the some of the basics of it but one in particular i think it gets you very excited so his channel dot com 24 7 christian tv on the internet and the program is called breaking news i'm on again monday wednesday and thursday my friend tom hughes is on tuesday and we also have other programs that we're doing live one called focus point to look and focusing on issues of what's going on in the world today all right um to put this into perspective we go back 2 000 years ago to the life and ministry of jesus remember there's an account that is unique to luke in the 24th chapter on the day of jesus resurrection there were two disciples that left early they had heard the women had come to the tomb two groups of women at least five of them had come to the tomb independently had been told by an angel that was there several angels that jesus had risen from the dead and they came back and told the men according to luke 24 11 the men were the first unbelievers of the resurrection of jesus they thought the women were delirious literally and so um peter and john run to the tomb they see it as the women had said and yet they don't see jesus from that you've got the very famous story of two men uh walking on the road to emmaus that same day not part of the eleven remember judas is already gone but part of the b team because there's other you know disciples that were there with them and they meet a stranger on the road and that's the lord jesus their eyes are supernaturally held back so they wouldn't recognize him now remember this is easter sunday resurrection day jesus asked them what are you talking about and they look at him bewildered what do you mean what are we talking about there's only one subject uh where have you been the last few days you know funny they should ask but you know uh the the idea is that everybody talked about this later in acts 26 26 we're told this thing was not done in a corner this everybody was talking about one subject the subject of jesus anyway as they were discussing jesus they had an incomplete view of him they said he was a prophetic man a man mighty and worded indeed and they had hoped he was going to redeem israel but they had lost hope and then in luke chapter 24 verse 25 is what we're going to start reading here is when jesus breaks in luke 24 25 and this is his response and this is a passage here i wish all of you if you like underlining in your bible to underline it to know it because there's a profound truth and well there's many but one profound truth it said luke 24 25 and he himself said to them that's when he's broke breaking into the conversation oh ignorant and slow in heart to believe notice this in all that the prophets had said all that the prophets had said it was necessary was it not for the christ to first suffer these things and then enter into his glory and beginning from moses and from all the scriptures he explained to them in all the scriptures the thing beginning from moses and all the prophets he explained to them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself wouldn't you have been in that bible study here jesus talked about where he's found in the old testament now notice what's said here if they had read the hebrew scriptures they would have expected the messiah to die it was predicted he would die they didn't pay attention to everything that was there interestingly there are three people only three that we know in the new testament recorded they really got it that jesus you know the time of his coming and the fact he would die and two of them were women remember you've got uh hannah the prophetess there in luke's gospel that came to the temple you got simeon the old man that was there also um you know who was promised by the lord he would see the messiah before he died that is simeon and then mary of bethany who basically anointed the body of jesus before he died uh recognizing his impending death on calvary's cross they got it they understood but most of the people did not they did not understand and these two disciples were told you know what jesus said oh foolish and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets had said and then he said if you read the scriptures the entire scriptures you didn't just gloss over the parts you didn't like you knew that the messiah had to suffer first before he entered into his glory you should have been expecting his death in other words they were not all right in the first coming the lord gave the people signs to make it very clear who he was when he was coming uh the time of his coming you know it would be some time before the second temple was destroyed he'd be born in bethlehem we're told he'd be born of the family of david very limited to who the messiah could be god made it clear and so the first time around he did this to make the people without any excuse now a number of years ago as i was thinking about this all right lord if you did it the first time around you probably did it the second time around also to give certain signs not the exact date but to give certain signs that we know we're near the time of the end and so recently some you know it was about a year or so ago i wrote a book called 25 signs we're near the end and looking at the signs that the bible gives what the world will be like in the last days and interestingly enough it's not just what the bible had to say about the last days it's what people who took the bible seriously had to say about the last days people that lived anywhere from 100 to 300 years ago who saw none of the things we saw but who predicted what the world would be like at the time of the end based on the bible and the bible alone all right so what we're going to do tonight is look at one of these signs and again there's so many we could do but i think you're going to particularly like this one because there's a number of lessons there and that is found in the 38th chapter of the book of ezekiel so if you want to turn there and we'll go through this together and i think you're going to really enjoy what we find ezekiel 38 and about six years ago i did a once a week class for over a year on ezekiel actually it's 33 to 39 i did uh for calvary chapel of tustin i ended up with over 200 pages of notes you know we were doing the class for several years and um then about what was it four or five years ago a church in wisconsin asked me to do a one-hour talk on this subject all right so i have 200 pages of notes right and i and i know i talk fast but i can't get it all done in an hour you know something okay what do i do i've got ezekiel 38 39 speak about a future battle that has yet to take place a literal battle that's one of the issues there so what do you do how do you make it clear in the time that i have and so what i'm going to do with you tonight is do what i did to these people and you know it's not rocket science it's something anybody can do and so i was thinking about doing the talk i you know i never heard anybody do a talk on the subject so i wanted i always liked doing things differently anybody else anyway i thought i don't think everybody's ever done it this way maybe they have i've never heard anybody do it so here's what i decided to do all right here's my plan if you read the chapters and you start with chapter 37 and you're assuming it's predicting a literal battle there's a number of conclusions we can make from interpreting interpreting the prophecy literally and this is not rocket sciences it's just reading it any of us can do this all right and so here's what i found i found at least 20 specific things that we can come to conclusions with based upon just reading this passage and we're going to find 10 things that are assumed to be true we'll deal with that before the invasion takes place ezekiel 38 39 talks about an invasion of seven or eight nations in the last days the ancient terms are given for the nation's gog is the leader gog from the land of magog which is in central asia central asia you know at the the stand countries now kyrgyzstan tajikistan and those which that geographical area is in that area and the other countries that are mentioned the the hebrew names there of course rosh that togarmah gomer put kush referred to persia persia would be modern-day iran of course uh iran actually iran is the ancient persian name for persia uh you know so it's the same country and then you've got bethel garman gomer modern-day turkey rosh is russia not because it sounds like it at all russia uh it's simply because the word talks about a group of people that lived in the far north of israel in that day anyway there's a number of countries that will invade from the north south east and west that also includes libya and possibly morocco and algeria but anyway they're going to be um in northern sudan they're going to be invading israel from all four sides in the last days all right uh the leader gog gog is going to get an evil thought in his mind it's going to come down to israel to take something he wants and something he needs and these other nations need all right so this is this is kind of the background of what's going on and so when we read through these chapters this is what i did i thought okay i'm just going to read through and come up with some things and let's just think about this before the battle takes place before this invasion takes place 10 things that are assumed to be true first of all the nation israel will exist in the last days the nation israel will exist in the last days now that's sort of obvious isn't it because they're they're getting invaded in their own land the people and according to ezekiel 38 8 twice in the same verse he says in the last days and the very last time if you say it once it gets your attention you say it twice in the same verse so this is not talking about ezekiel's in babylon now 2500 years before the time of 500 years before the time of christ 2500 years ago he was a priest who became a prophet and he's talking about the not only the near future but the way distant future before the kingdom of god comes on the earth and ezekiel 38 8 is the key twice at the last times at the time of the end this is going to take place so this is not the return from babylon this is a future return before the coming of the lord and he talks about an invasion that will take place against the nation of israel and so the first thing we come up with i mean this is again not rocket science well israel has to exist as a nation in the last days right okay that's that's a given okay number one number two we're also told in this these chapters that they will have been scattered throughout the world the people have been scattered throughout the world that's why we know it's not the babylonian captivity why they were taken to one place babylon 70 years later they were brought back this is a worldwide scattering of the people okay the people are scattered worldwide these jews that exist in the last days and number three though however at some future time the scattered nation will return to their ancient homeland they're going to return to their ancient homeland this scattered nation but specifically this is very important it's going to happen in the last days again ezekiel 38 8 at the very last time so we assume jews still exist they have been scattered worldwide but at the last days they will come back miraculously to their ancient homeland in the last days the people of israel they will return and prediction number four they'll return after being gone for a long time a very long period of time in other words it won't be 10 years 15 years 20 years when they get scattered they'll have been scattered for a very long time the the prophecy tells us here all right ezekiel 37 talks about the returning numbers number five and they're like an army a huge number of people will return in other words this is not just drips and drabs a few people a huge number of people will return and what what happens when they return number six the land they return to the land they return to will be a land that will have been decimated by war decimated by war in other words the land has just been devastated it's not the land of milk and honey anymore they're coming back again this is verse 8 of ezekiel 38 to a desolate land that wars have decimated it all right in the last days they're going to return to that now though they return to this desolate land prediction number seven says once they get there they're going to create great wealth they're going to turn turn it all around and make the land wealthy again it'll make the land healthy and they're going to create wealth there again when they return once they get back and create this great wealth and also number eight when they return they will form some sort of political entity a modern state because they're going to be attacked as a people group who has settled in this land with some type of political entity or a state in other words they're not just some mass of people amongst many different people groups in the land they're attacking the nation of israel in the promised land so they'll have some type of modern state or political entity now the borders interestingly enough according to ezekiel 38 and 39 we'll include the mountains of israel we're going to see the importance of that later the mountains of israel are part of their borders because once they get into the mountains of israel the bible says that's when god gives the whammy to these invading armies that come from the north south east and west and when they come back they will come back in unbelief of jesus unbelief of jesus so what does the scripture say again all you have to do is read the chapter and make the notes okay the jews still exist and okay they've been scattered in the last days they've been scattered throughout the world sometime though they're going to come back but it's going to be specifically in the last days when they return they'll been away for an awful long period of time their numbers will be huge when they return the land they return to will be land decimated by war yet uh once they're back in the land they will create great wealth when they return they will form some type of political entity some type of state their borders of this promised land will include the mountains of israel and when they do come back they will still be an unbelief of jesus the messiah because only after this battle takes place where they begin to recognize that the god of the bible is working on their behalf all right those are 10 things if you read these two chapters that are assumed to be true in the last days and the very last time about this invasion all right now let's go to the invasion itself all right uh let's set the stage for that number one we have seven or eight modern nations which will will be involved in the attack we say seven or eight there's a question on one or two of them but the bottom line is seven or eight modern nations that ezekiel uses their ancient names for when we put the modern name in the geographical area seven or eight nations will be involved in this attack this invasion in the last days now the second prediction we have about the invasion the aftermath why do they do it why do they attack israel has not only something they want it has something these people need in other words this little nation has something not only these other nations want but something they need now a third thing that's tremendously interesting that this also caught my eye that none of the nations that are said to invade israel specifically none of them border israel in other words you don't have egypt you don't have syria you don't have jordan you don't have lebanon none of the nations border egypt they come from further north further south further east and further west which is you know it's an interesting fact you know because i'm looking at this going and this you know this is interesting you know if i was making it up i wouldn't but these people anyway so they don't they the numbers uh the nations none of them specifically border israel now the leader of this coalition the person personage who's going to lead it gog gog excuse me that's a title it's kind of like caesar or you know or a pharaoh or grand poobah or something like that gog is the leader uh he desires to take something that does not belong to him he gets this evil thought to try to take something that does not belong to him okay that's the leader of this coalition all right when this invasion takes place though there's going to be a protest a protest from a certain uh people in the area certain natives in the area the ancient terms of sheba and di dan and that would be the geography of the modern gulf states they're not going to be involved in the invasion they will protest the invasion when it takes place israel will be caught unawares this is our next point they'll be living in relative peace caught unaware and something else here and this is the one that hit me the hardest that i'd i'd never heard anybody say this i'm sure somebody had it i never heard you say it it one it hit me i'm reading about this here's israel in the last days seven or eight nations are invading them but this leader gog has an evil thought to come and take this land but not a second thought and and puts this coalition together and invades but we find nobody coming to the aid of israel there is no superpower in the world in other words who can or will stand with israel during the time of this invasion there's no fear of someone intervening on the half behalf of israel that's going to be interesting when we get into that a little bit all right that's thing that hit me right between the eyes i mean he was not afraid of anybody coming to the trouble is he forgot one personage who could you know get into that and that's god himself he had no uh fear of that all right we're told when the nations enter the promised land then god will supernaturally intervene he'll supernaturally intervene and destroy the entire army destroy the entire armies there completely destroy their armies but also something else too according to ezekiel 39 6 he's not only going to destroy the armies he's going to destroy the main structures of the country they come from in other words their command and control centers their their their forts their hospitals their mosques whatever it might be their their military bases in other words the destruction will not only be with the armies but from the countries that sent them there'll be destruction there and finally we're told at that particular time the world will begin to understand that the god of the bible is working on their behalf that the god of the bible is working on their behalf okay so basically again in a nutshell this is something any of you can do you read the chapters and you come up with well here's what it says you know these are just assumptions what's going to be in place before this invasion what's going to take place during the invasion the aftermath these are the predictions made by the prophet ezekiel 2500 years ago so we asked the question all right well how did god do in his predictions we're gonna find out he did pretty well okay right okay first and foremost ten things predicted to be in place before this invasion occurred you know what we're gonna find out every single one of them has been literally fulfilled to this day right now all ten of them is that something i mean and i want you i mean this is something you're gonna have to think about think of the odds that any that all of these would be fulfilled 2500 years after the fact let's go down the list okay they all have to be in place number one the nation of israel of course does exist in the last days they still exist right uh they've been it's amazing prediction made simply because they were removed from their homeland at the time of this prediction now what's fascinating no other nation the history of the world's ever been removed from their homeland and never come back this is the babylonian captivity it's not only happened to israel once it's happened twice both times predicted and so we see that humanly speaking there was no guarantee they'd ever be able to return because no other nation has ever returned to their ancient homeland once totally removed except israel not once but twice all right so that literally fulfilled number two the people of the nation have been scattered throughout the world again literally fulfilled scattered to the four corners of the earth uh when i did the book 25 signs were near the end one of the things that really hit me between the eyes were the people living you know 100 200 years ago 250 years ago what they had going for there was two things they had going for number one that israel did still exist you go anywhere in the world there are jews wherever you go that never ever ever become absorbed in the nations they live in they're always the jews wherever you go they keep their own laws their own dress their own looks and they're all all scattered around the world and so since that was literally fulfilled as we're going to see possibly the rest of this will all literally be fulfilled about the their scattering and their coming back to the land now we also know that not only were they scattered they did return to their ancient homeland something we have seen in our day and age uh 70 years ago of course uh just this last year they returned to their ancient homeland literally fulfilled scattered throughout the world and they had been away from for a long time 1900 years is a long time they've been away for that long away from their land just like the bible said an awful long time but they have returned uh and again fulfillment five return in large numbers the population israel right now has just reached approximately nine million nine million people so large numbers yes indeed they have come back the land to which they returned has been decimated by war decimated by war the promised land was not a land of milk and honey when they came back uh far from it in fact in the 19th century mark twain wrote a book called the innocence abroad here's how he described israel in 1867 a desolate country whose soil is rich enough but is given over wholly to weeds a silent mournful expanse a desolation we never saw a human being on the whole route hardly a tree or shrub anywhere even the olive tree and the cactus those fast friends of worthless soil had almost deserted the country that's from the innocence abroad 1867 not much of a holy land was it at that time all right yet once back in the land they have created great wealth they have indeed created great wealth this is mind-boggling little israel the little country that's so small on a map of the middle east you can't write the name israel into the land mass you have to write israel out in the mediterranean sea it doesn't even fit in the land mass it's so small the size of new jersey in a recent study the nation of israel has been discovered to be the eighth most powerful country in the entire world the eighth most powerful country they're you know there's superstars when it comes to uh high tech and this and that the wealth that they have again they created great wealth from a land that was basically devastated literally fulfilling what the scripture had said i'm going to read you hugh mcneil writing in 1840. i want you to listen to this predicted this based upon scripture the present condition of the land of palestine is well known to be one of extreme barrenness and desolation whereas it was a land of flocks and herds a land flowing with milk and honey the glory of all lands in this way we recognize the literal fulfillment notice this of the clause of prophecy which predicts desolation and from the next clause of the prophecy we confident we confidently confidently anticipate a literal renovation of beauty and fertility accompanied by a multiplication of beast upon it as well as men for the consumption of its produce in the present condition of the jewish people divided and dispersed we recognize the literal fulfillment of those claims of prophecy which imply division and predict dispersion and from similar clauses summarily interpreted we confidently anticipate a similar literal fulfillment of the promised restoration and reunion he wrote that 1 800 years after the city of jerusalem the temple were destroyed jews scattered throughout the world not a sign of him anywhere confidently predicted why he had god's word the bible amazing in it and so these people incredible me okay so number eight the modern state of israel was formed that was literally fulfilled because it's some type of political entity that was formed uh again 70 years ago number nine this one's a mind-boggling too the borders now include the mountains of israel the mountains of israel interestingly enough when the modern state of israel was reborn in 1948 the city of jerusalem split right down the middle west jerusalem was in the hands of the israelis east jerusalem in the hands of a country called trans-jordan the city was divided and right after the um you know when that happened you had the war of independence 1948 when an armistice finally took place in 49 again jerusalem's divided right down the middle now careful bible students realize that well there's got to be another war something has to take place because according to ezekiel 38 39 when these armies enter the mountain of israel that is their territory when we read about the temple the temple mount and the third temple that's going to be built that was in east jerusalem not in israeli hands in 1948 so careful bible students says well there's got to be another war and they've got to take over the temple mount the mountains of judea because that's all assumed to be in israeli hands in fact the book of zechariah tells us at the very time of the end when as jerusalem is attacked half the cities destroyed the other half's about to be when the lord intervenes but it assumes the entire city is in the hands of the israelis and that wasn't fulfilled to 1967 in the six day war but literally fulfilled just as the scriptures say we can go on and on and on with that but anyway literally fulfilled the predictions and the borders include the mountains of israel and that's the result of the six day war the geographical area is under their control and they have come back definitely an unbelief of jesus many jews are secular having no religion whatsoever in fact we're told until ezekiel 39 when god supernaturally envy intervenes it's only then the nation starts getting getting with the idea hey you know this is uh god's working on our behalf when he supernaturally destroys the army but just think about this for a second those 10 things that i mentioned again all you have to do is read the chapters and put a scenario of what the bible assumes is going to be the case in the last days all these things are assumed to be true when this invasion takes place again at the very end ezekiel 38 8 10 specific things 10 literally fulfilled i don't know about youth i think god did pretty well on that it's amazing is it to see those now the prediction about the invasion itself seven or eight nations will invade israel now this part of the prophecy hasn't been fulfilled yet but here's what's mind-boggling this is my top story today on on breaking news and uh three nations working together uh gonna basically be leading the front of this invasion and the story today this week there's gonna be a meeting there in moscow of three particular nations russia turkey and iran three of the ones mentioned in ezekiel 38 which are leading the charge in this last days again you can't make this stuff up and and so russia turkey and iran are working together a turkey a member of nato a secular country for a century turned you know to the dark side with this new leader erdogan bringing them back to their glory days of the ottoman empire which for 400 years they ruled not only the middle east but great swaths of land in the world in fact in the 1850s they had something like 5 million square kilometers under the control of the ottoman empire it was broken up after the first world war he wanted to get back to the glory days and so he's trying to turn the country back to islam because they were secular for 100 years and he along with putin of russia with the ayatollah there in iran you've got a triumvirate of three very evil three very much megalomaniac people who have all got their own reason for being working together here for getting in not only to syria and in lebanon and israel's right at israel's northern border but being there uh to set the stage for this invasion see here's the thing that always got us this is to me is how mind-boggling this is i remember when this all was getting set up how incredible this is because remember these people are living in relative peace and so they're not expecting the invasion to take place but how could that be if they're going to come all the way from iran if they're going to come all the way from russia and even turkey which has one nation you know syria in the way how in the world is that going to happen with satellite technology you know you can't even you know sneeze and you know without being seen on a satellite somewhere you gather amassing troops together it's obviously going to be seen well what's the answer the answer is the islamic state isis coming in the syrian civil war in 2011 isis at one time controlled one-third of syria one-third of iraq so who came in well it was the iranians it was the russians and others that helped sierra out the united states kind of you know said goodbye to the whole middle east area and when president trump came in he finished the job that with you know that the our army's the best army in the world that was kept from doing but basically we had no real you know personage there we really didn't have any you know a footprint there in iraq or as it were syria not to the degree most of the people had been moved out so anyway the bottom line is there's no question now how they can do it they're right above israel's northern border 15 miles from the border and as as we look into it they're going to become more and more as the future you know tells us now israel has something that these countries want something they need again recently voted the eighth most powerful country in the world the natural gas the oil that's there in fact pastor chuck used to say what are they there they've come down to take something they want and they need and he said i think if it and the king james version says take a spoil if you take the first two letters off spoil he says i think you got the answer what they're looking for and that's oil and so we'll see you know we'll uh that could be i got some other ideas that's a whole other story here but anyway i recently voted eighth most powerful country in the world and again none of the nations that are specifically mentioned border israel syria jordan lebanon and egypt egypt's been involved in every single war against israel since their reformation in 1948 yet a few years ago they turned and now they're working together because because they have mutual enemies the book of isaiah tells us there's a wonderful future for egypt in the last days they'll build a monument in the country to the lord so egypt is mentioned as one that's not taking place in the battle here the leader of the coalition gog will desire to take something that does not belong to him that's a prediction of what's going to happen interesting the uh we don't know who gog is uh he's the leader of this coalition as my friend joel rosenberg says well it may or may not be vladimir putin he may not be gog but he's acting gog-esque what you know like with the ukraine taking things that don't belong to him being the new sheriff there in the middle east so we'll see but he would be a great candidate for this character uh in the last days this personage gog gog all right and number five the invasion is going to raise a protest from shiba and didan modern saudi arabia and the gulf states now this one here is to me is mind-boggling absolutely mind-boggling how this is working out minutely the saudis will be not part of the invasion turkey will turkey and the saudis were getting very close working together until until the recent murder of khashoggi there in istanbul by the saudis at the saudi embassy and so now that has caused a split between saudi arabia and turkey erdogan the leader of turkey wants to be the leader of the muslim world so he's really doing what he can to put himself and separate himself but the rest of the muslim world from the saudis from the new leader mbs muhammad bin salman the young leader there who basically was behind it we all know that but no one's admitting that anyway bottom line is and so they can't get together because the bible says they're on two different sides so what you see here's what's mind-boggling not only who's involved but who's not involved in fact when you start adding up the different specific things that are mentioned there's something like 26 specific things of countries who will be involved who won't be involved all fallen into place right now in the day in which we live it's just amazing modern saudi arabia and the gulf states that shivan didan they will protest they won't be involved but it shows they have some type of relationship with israel which these gulf states do they'll be living in relative peace uh they'll be thinking they're okay uh is certainly gonna be the case in the future where they they they're thinking you know since these nations have been there for a long time we're not worried about them that is the the people right up north of them uh because they're beginning you know it's interesting netanyahu he's running again for prime minister he keeps going back cap and hand to putin and there's all these articles i've read them israeli press well we can trust the russians they're our good friends you know yeah they're the ones that are going to lead the coalition against them in fact uh they're the ones that you least can trust and yet they're going to the arm of flesh just like israel and the bible did right rather than trusting in the lord okay here's the one that is really interesting number seven no super power can or will intervene on their behalf uh we have only 2 000 troops in the area in syria right now you probably heard the announcement what december 21st president trump says we're going to pull those out he made a statement today it may have been taken out of context but he basically said part of the statement was well iran can do they basically are able to do what they want in syria they can take over syria and here is the herein lies the problem when you watch our program what we do we always have split screen we're breaking news and sometimes we have live stories on the other part of the screen but we have a map of the middle east and it shows tehran where all this starts it goes iran and then you've got iraq right next to it which borders it iraq borders syria there is a land bridge a corridor right now that iran can send munitions people and whatever all the way from iran through iraq into syria the only thing stopping it now were the 2000 americans that were there at two of the border crossings which are now saying sayonara now according to some you know reports there will be people replacing them the egyptians i think it's either the united arab emirates or whatever it might be but the americans are going now uh this is a a dicey situation our trump says and you know the administration says we're they're not leaving the area completely in other words they will move out of syria but there's still 5 000 americans in iraq which is bordering that we'll have some percentages there and so we're there in case something flares up we don't know but the bottom line is america is is going to be uninvolved eventually they're not going to be in the air we will not be involved in this no superpower who can or will intervene on behalf of israel now if something happened today i know president trump would intervene with our if israel got attacked he indeed would intervene unfortunately there's going to be someone coming down the line who's going to be running this country who will not intervene on the side of israel either will not or cannot and unfortunately as the way we see things going in the future of our country we look at the leadership of let's face it both political parties we can see that happening can't we gutless spineless people out there that are there that are there right now in washington dc and god help us but we're expecting this to happen because at the time of the end the bible talks about perilous times come coming now again uh still in the future when the nations enter the promised land god will supernaturally intervene completely destroy the armies uh destroying the main structures in the country and then at that time the world will know begin to know that the god of the bible exists and so bottom line is this gang as we look at the world around us this is just one of by the way one of the 25 signs it's one of them i mean and it's got all these different points i do a talk i don't know if i did this for you before what i do on the first three signs just the first three of the 25 there are 17 specific things that are predicted all of them have been literally fulfilled in the ezekiel 38 39 battle to the run-up of the battle everything's in place and again all you have to do you could read it yourself and write in the margin all these things that i just told you again not rocket science they're all in place setting the stage for what the lord is going to allow to happen in the last days what a great time to be alive and it to see all these things because it's happened so quickly so fast i did a interview with barry stagner day on his channel we did i did two programs earlier today besides the radio since my fourth thing today but anyway the um when we did our focus point we talked about that uh how quickly all this has come together in our lifetime we've seen things happen in the last few years things we couldn't even imagine that have happened uh one of the signs of the end is the exponential increase of technology which is literally mind-boggling to each and every one of us because the scripture is a whole other subject assume in three different places modern technology that wasn't around in the day when the new testament was written but assumed to be true in the last days all right i see i am out of time i don't don't even need deodorant barely got warmed up here but uh the uh the subject is so fascinating we could go on for hours and hours and hours but here's the bottom line here's one i want you to take home with you there is a god who exists obviously he's working he's told us the future ahead of time so we can know he exists that he's in control of all things okay that means the promises made to you and to me we can take literally to heart to the bank as it were if he's promised of something he will keep his word we see it objectively in the world the word of god says in titus 1 2 god cannot lie and so what i take from this i mean it makes me a confident person living in this world where people are just scared to death every day of how to live what's going to happen next because we know god's in control and our life is under his control too right and so the bottom line is when we walk out here we think wow this is great stuff god's told us ahead of time like he did the first time around um what's going to happen and we don't want to be ignorant like these people were in jesus day like jesus said to those two on the road to emmaus we want to know what's going on and we can know if we take the bible seriously daniel 12 10 says at the time of the end the wise will understand the wise are those that take bible prophecy seriously it's laid out for us all we got to do is read the book and it all fits together wonderfully like this great puzzle and we're seeing it come together right now and so not only is it true we also see that the same god is working in our lives too and if he's promised us certain things he's certainly going to keep his word all right let's pray heavenly father thank you so much thank you for your word thank you for just this one prophecy written so long ago by the prophet ezekiel they're in babylon they're with a group of people who were dumbfounded that the city had been destroyed the temple had been destroyed and you used him to talk about the far distant future some 2500 years at least from his time to a day in which we see the stage set right now the amazing 10 things that are supposedly in place are all in place just as your word said and many of them have taken place in our own lifetime lord we thank you for that we thank you for showing us signs of the end and we thank you that you are working so encourage us today if we've had any doubts that you're working that we doubt of your existence doubts that you're there in our lives we know you're there and let us just by faith remember this whenever doubts come in our mind of things we just don't understand are confused about but thank you so much for your word where we can have confidence in you in jesus precious name we pray amen i think some folks here probably have some questions but i got a question for you okay yes thank you so much so glad this worked out we had a moment there we weren't sure that dom is going to be able to make it tonight and i i just did um an inaudible yahoo when i found out for sure he was going to be here yeah but um i want don to answer this question what is the purpose of prophecy why would god tell us all these things in advance yeah great question okay a couple of reasons he tells us that in isaiah 48 3 and 5 and isaiah you know 46 9 and 10 that he knows the future he is in control of the future so we can know that he exists that we're not believing something false that that he's telling us an outline of the future so we will believe in him as the one true god in fact he says in isaiah 40 through 48 in very different ways set for you know he he he mocks the gods of the the false gods the the gods of wood and stone well tell us what's going to happen the future please tell us what you've done what nothing well um here's what i've done and so he tells to peter to remember what he's done in the past so let's get a reminder bill that he exists he's done this from the beginning of time right and so if we remember what he has done is doing and will do we'll trust him so prophecies to let us know that he is the god that exists and i remember that that passage where jesus says to his disciples i tell you these things in advance so that when it happens so that in 2019 at the beginning of january and we hear that the stage is set for ezekiel 38 and 30 and that wasn't true 20 years ago it was not true at all 20 years ago in fact uh when you look at it just you know back in the 70s iran was the best friend of israel in the mid 70s of the yom kippur war they're the ones who basically resupplied israel haven't won the 1973 war uh turkey is where the israelis took their vacations up until just a few years ago so thinking iran turkey and russia would be militarily involved together was unheard of in fact never in the history of humanity as these geographical areas turkey and excuse me iran and russia whatever they were called in the past ever been militarily aligned until today it's the first time ever in the history of the world there's a military alignment there in this in these last days i was about to say unbelievable but it's believable it is unbelievable and so the the the last thing jesus said in that statement i tell you these things in advance so when they come to pass you will believe yes not so that you can argue about them and speculate over them until they come to pass but it's so clear that what god said he did and i think one of the other things that's so important for us is that as we see what god has done i love how you said it just the the simple statement that god is a god of his word if he said it he will do it and now we are the people who get to do his work we get to partner with him the power of the spirit to share the beautiful beautiful gospel with people who need to be ready yes and maybe there's somebody here tonight that you walked in here and you're not ready you wouldn't be ready for christ to say this is the day this is the last day and maybe you haven't surrendered your life to him and you haven't as i said as we took communion you haven't turned from the darkness repented whatever word you want to use there you haven't let go of that sin that is waiting you down and destroying you and he wants you in his family so tonight you must respond to him you must respond and we'll give you a chance for that as well anybody have any questions tonight if you have a question i want to ask you to to i'll come to you if i can get to you quickly but otherwise anybody else that has a question while this question is being asked come on and stand down here in that aisle and i'll come up to you but let me go out here to the doubt first oh i don't i'm not going to let go of the mic i'm going to hold on to it but yeah but especially me you don't want to give it to me um the prophecy about there's people say when you talk about the future that one thing that we know that we're not in end times let me say is because the temple hasn't been built on the temple mound do you can you okay i saw you roll your eyes can you comment on that and can you and are you seeing things that are leading up to that happening yeah yeah i i don't have a book here with me tonight i've written a book on the subject called the jews jerusalem and the coming temple and uh everything is set the stage is all set there's something like 41 implements that have been made when i was in israel in 2010 this british guy who's in charge this group the temple institute when our group was in listening to their dog and pony show he goes hey come over here a second i'll show you show you this because i go in this room here's the altar of sacrifice we've just built for the temple they've got all the implements there they've got the priests garment they've got every single thing ready to rock and roll they just need to be able to build on the temple mouth they need the okay which is now they don't have that the world would attack them the muslim world would attack they've even tried to do anything like that you can't even worship today freely on the temple mount if you're a jew or a christian but no it doesn't have to be built before we don't have to see the temple being built it only exists three and a half years it the sacrifices stop halfway through this last seven year period and so it exists at three and a half years in the last seven year period which hasn't begun yet how long it exists before that we don't know it could exist years before that it could exist months or only weeks when it is defiled so all it has to exist is somewhere in the middle of that period now to show you how ready they are i mentioned this earlier to someone we did a temple conference in the when was it the late 80s i keep forgetting the time now i believe it was yeah 89 1990 in jerusalem we invited the leader of the temple institute up there and gave a talk and we had a question and answer for him says okay uh heim richmond hi uh when you get the okay to build the third temple how soon will it be built you know i know how how long do we have to wait and he looked at us very serious you know he's kind of a comedic like woody allen this time he got really serious and he said from the moment we get the okay we will be sacrificing in three to four months that was 30 years ago i mean can you imagine how ready they are right now and so everything is there prefab ready to go all they need you know they'll get a good bulldozer probably and move the dome of the rock off the mount but they don't they they've got everything ready every single thing is ready the priests are trained everything is ready so no we don't have to see the temple be built at all the preparations have been made and that's one of the signs of the end the preparations are made for a third temple we may see it we may not don't know but we don't have to good question though excellent one of the things you'll see if you go with this to israel if you've been there you probably have been there you've probably seen this we'll go to the temple institute we'll see some of the the preparation hear about all that but you'll see and it's a replica i'm pretty sure that they show you close to where the temple institute is but the the lamp stand also known as anybody know what the other name is for the lampstand yeah the menorah the menorah not the hanukkah menorah with nine lights but the seven uh and tall what is about eight feet tall i think the the one that you see and that's a replica but the one that's going to be used is is under lock and key but yeah next question great question don thanks for coming out today my question does kind of dovetail with that i know that the temple instituted three years ago they instituted a raise a red heifer program and the one that was born four months ago isn't really suitable because of a white blotch or something like that and so i kind of wanted you to comment on the red heifer and a need thereof and then secondly i know chuck used to teach that i went last time i was there on the temple mount that the new temple could exist north of the dome of the rock mosque yeah great great and while don prepares to answer that if any of you have children in child care now be a good time to slip out and grab them you can come back in yeah when my daughter my youngest was two years of age i learned babysitting i took a year off speaking when i was in australia when my daughter was two as a babysitter and i swore i'd never go over the limit once when you were two-year-olds and the pastor was going on and on and on i thought never again never anyway so we'll let you go and get the kids because we know about mutinies that take place there uh okay no seriously i mean oh my goodness anyway um the question again was the the red hat right here okay numbers 19. there's a sacrifice that was there a purification of the temple where they sacrificed this red cow this red heifer and they're a certain you know qualification had to have it's been sacrificed depending on who you listen to either seven times or nine times during the israel's history uh to purify the people and the temple area this is one of the things that's they they believe is necessary to um build a third temple and so they have to find one that's kosher uh back in the 70s they thought they'd found one in mississippi that didn't work out in the 80s they found again as mentioned recently one was born in israel that seemed to be fitting uh the the requirements and you can't have more than you know one or two i believe it is uh hairs that aren't red totally red and this calf was born like that the problem is of course may not stay that way they don't know but they're getting there in other words that they seem to believe that's necessary now what also is interesting also is interesting uh there is a story that uh was believed and may or may not be true that there was an urn the first time the red heifer was sacrificed when the tabernacle was dedicated the ashes were put in an urn the next time a red heifer was sacrificed the ashes were put in that same urn and every single time historically these ashes had been put in this urn and so instead of sacrificing a new red heifer there was they searched for the original ones all on this urn that had all been put together over the years that that would be perfect and that was one of the things that was really big in the 80s there perfect and mentioning the location the temple asher kaufman who came up with the theory that it was north of the dome of the rock uh we were very very good friends in fact he took me on the t i went a couple times on the temple mount with him and also a place on the mount of olives we thought the original ashes the red heifer might be buried he'd done some uh you know incredible monumental work on that unfortunately we couldn't get into the place but uh bottom line is yeah they'll find a way they either find the original ashes or because i asked asher well what if you don't find the original ashes he goes we'll just have to sacrifice a new one you know you know typical wise jew i mean uh i mean well we just hey we just get a new one okay i should have thought of that you know but i thought yeah because for so long they said well you got to find the original ashes you can't purify the temple he says no no we're looking for that'd be great but we'll just you know find a kosher one and do it and so with respect to the location where the temple stood somewhere on the temple mount there there's four or five locations there the dome of the rock is one of them north uh 330 feet is this dome of the tablets the dome of the spirits where asher kaufman argued he thought the temple the stood there to the south uh if you look at it we could use illustration i don't have the pictures here again if you watch this during the day we have a picture of the program we'll have pictures of the temple mount the al-aqsa mosque and that further south closer to the mount of olives when you look down the mount of olives the temple mount there's this gray building this mosque uh some people argue it was built closer to that so you've got three main locations and then even in these main locations exactly where in those locations we don't know but somewhere on that mountain 144 000 square meters the first and second temple were built in the third temple will be built to is there a possibility that the dome of the rock could stay there and the temple be built it's not impossible that's true that's what asher said you know it could stay there because according to his view of the mount it was built to the north that would be in the court of the gentiles and interesting revelation 11 says when john was to measure the temple uh leave out the court of the gentiles don't don't measure it for it's been you know given over to the nations as it were so it's interesting we'll see we don't know and until you can do firsthand that's a whole nother subject a firsthand work on the temple mount you won't know where the first and second temple stood all right great question very wise group here you have bill well taught um there's a saying amongst the jews that the formation of israel in 48 was actually the building of the third temple do you give any credence to that no none whatsoever in fact they don't know the the people that take the scripture seriously because isaiah chapter 2 verses 1 to 4 basically talks about a time where they come to a all the nations to a physical building in the last days and ezekiel 40 to 48 talks about another temple that's not this third one that's the messiah's temple see they equate the next temple with the messiah's temple ezekiel 40 uh to 48 as isaiah 2 1-4 talks about but no no the tribulation temple was one going to be there build an unbelief in the meantime but no it's got to be a physical you know there's a lot of yeah but there's a lot of spiritualization going on you're right that you hear that but those that take the scriptures seriously say no there's got to be a building here there's got to be another building and god has supernaturally brought us back to the land miraculously done it we're going to build the temple and the world will be at peace and the person who helps us and here's what they say this is the scary part the purpose who help the person who helps us put together and build the temple that will be the messiah and of course who is it going to be it's going to be the final antichrist that does that the false christ false messiah a question oh yeah um so if you believe the jews are like the chosen people and stuff uh why are they the chosen people because they hate jesus and they hate like christians great great why are they chosen you know it's interesting isn't it bill that the old testament says god chose them because he did sovereignty not because they were better than anybody else he just sovereignly chose these descendants of abraham isaac and jacob you're right they hate you know nationally they've you know they hate christians although they've come to learn the evangelical christians us we're a whole different breed they've making the distinction now because remember the so-called christians are the ones that persecuted them they're the ones that did all the horrific things would you know and the terrible things that have done been done to the jews in the past and so there god chose them sovereignly because he did he just chose them the oracles of god romans what chapter 3 what advantage has the jew much in every way they were given the oracles of god every book of the bible was written by a jew except the gospel of luke in the book of acts and so they've been chosen by god why because he sovereignly did it not because they're any better than any other group just because he's god and he chose to do it so that's his answer not mine and and the early jesus movement was almost entirely jews that came to christ and there's an amazing movement right now among the people of israel both in the land and outside of the land that are coming to christ it's just marvelous to see yeah over here i have two questions one is what still has to happen in prophecy uh before we get to the end and secondly uh the president of france emmanuel macron what's your thoughts on him potentially being the antichrist i knew we'd have an antichrist question okay yeah thank you omego macron not a prayer 18 popularity the guy's an empty suit he wants to be the leader sorry he wants to be the leader of the of the the globalist leader of the world but he's not going to be it's it's weird because every time a new leader comes up you know he's a uh he's a nice looking guy he's young guy and he's got all he basically self-confirmed globalism on him you know he's the leader of the globalist world but look what he's messed up with the yellow vest there in paris and that and all that now and so he really has got in above his head this final antichrist he will be someone that is going to come out of obscurity uh kind of the person you least expect someone that you you know kind of like someone you don't even like a librarian type of look it's gonna be we'll look at it this way it's gonna no it's gonna be like clark can't turn no offense to librarians but it's gonna be clark kent or the guy who read your gas meter okay how about that one okay uh he's gonna be car kent turning into superman it's what it is someone who just comes up literally out of obscurity and so it's not someone who's coming on the stage you know like macron or something like that someone is gonna come up through this new european union that's coming together believe me in fact it's funny the president of that a few years ago looked like the proverbial librarian like the last guy you you'd expect but we won't we don't neces he won't be revealed till we're gone we won't know who he is so quit trying to figure out who he is uh because we can't because he won't come uh until we're out of here and it'll be like you mean this character this is the guy clark you're super mad it's kind of big like that you know like lois lane and jimmy olsen can never figure it out and you know you know anyway that's another story so um so that was the mecca what was the other question oh what's going on okay interesting um i don't have it here tonight i'm out my book it's called timeline of 50 last days events the next thing that's going to happen that there's some things that could happen but the next to start the ball rolling the dead in christ rise first in the rapture of the church that can happen at any time now certain things may happen before that we don't know but they do not have to happen uh most of these events notice are going to happen this final seven year period but think about this if the stage is set for the final seven year period events to happen how much closer can we be to when the beginning takes place it's sort of the analogy many of you may have heard before if you it's kind of like you're sitting on the ocean right you ever look out and you see a ship coming in the distance the first thing you see is the mast right the top of the ship because of the curvature of the earth and you think you know there's a pretty good chance of if the mast is showing up the rest of the ship will eventually show up right on the horizon because it it tells you something is coming towards you and it's sort of like the ship is coming toward us we see the mast on the horizon meaning the rest of the events will take place but that's again in god's time and we can't limit god and let me say this the last thing we ever want to do is is give some sort of restriction to god's he's got to come within our lifetime he's got to come within 20 no he does not he does not at all now the events are happening very quickly where he could but don't don't don't please don't limit god and don't box him in he's not boxed himself and that's a mistake so many people have made okay we're gonna take one more question i'm gonna take it from the back section the last question's always the best too there's no pressure on you but uh hey over here okay by the way you've been a great audience i appreciate uh and i'm glad i was able to make it tonight that something almost took me away but i was hoping to be here so i'm glad i'm here yes sir hey don we know that there's a one world government and a one world religion coming and of the last number of years it kind of dawned on me well islam is a government and a religion in one and it also has the theme identify us or die and i just wonder if you see any connection there uh yes and no islam will be though this ezekiel 38 39 battle will be almost all muslim nations i want you to think about this uh their whole armies are going to be destroyed their whole command and control centers their mosque back where they came from is going to be destroyed uh i believe that's right before the beginning of the final seven year period if that's the case it's not going to be real popular for the people to guam on to it right because their religion has been destroyed with their armies uh this what we're seeing and this is the whole one of the signs of the and the globalist point of view the the idea that uh you know we are evolving to this uh new age of where uh but there's going to come a time when people think you know we've got to worship something right so this person comes on the scene that basically has all the answers to everything and he's going to unite the religions around himself remember he's going to demand and he the false prophet this final antichrist they worship not only him but actually worship the devil too they make an image of the beast this false prophet does which is able to be come to life and that will be the religion at the time of the end some people do argue with islam but islam if our timing is right on these last day's events except for russia every army that's coming from these nations northern sudan algeria morocco you know whether it be turkey whether it be iran they're all muslim nations and if they get slaughtered by god in one fell swoop it's not actually a you know a motivation for the rest of the world to become muslims isn't it when here's your you know where's your god and all this when there's a god that destroys your armies your people your command and control center your mosques see that's where the power moves back to western europe i believe once that happens western europe is going to be the place where the action is and that's where this leader arises this final antichrist this final man of sin that's coming on the scene and probably again someone we would at least expect if we met him we wouldn't know it and here's one other final thing too that um even satan does not know who he is you ever think about that i never thought about that until i wrote my book called the final antichrist and i read i've never read it anywhere else this is book written in the 1960s this whole book by moody bible institute this one teacher there and he started talking about this i thought why didn't i i heard joe rosenberg say but i never heard anybody else say it every and here's why satan doesn't know when the end is coming it's only god that knows that right satan doesn't have any you know no knowledge of the future what's going to happen so he has to have his man ready in every generation first john 2 18 many antichrists have already come one final one is coming god knows who he is but satan doesn't know who he is this character you know he's going to be it's going to be like remember when satan offered jesus the kingdoms of the world and jesus rejected him now this this fool is going to be offered the kingdoms he's going to accept it he's going to you know he's going to believe he's going to you know be talked into ruling and reigning and he's going to literally be turned from clark kennedy to superman to use that analogy as it were but you know uh it's again someone we'd at least expect someone who'll be powered by the devil himself and but someone who is unknown to satan because but satan's had to have antichrist in every generation and we can see him can't we the hitlers the mussolinis the stalins you can go back in time uh these type of people that were always there so somewhere maybe alive today we don't know is this personage going about his business that someday will be this person the bible talks about in so much detail will be the final world rule where the final caesar until the lord himself comes back okay william we'll turn it back over you thank you don you're welcome yeah let's thank don for tonight this is um educatingourworld.com and his channel what are the name of the two programs again breaking news and focus point and they're on demand and and uh the pastor's perspective you can go online and you can get the back um programs it's all it's all archived there's a song we're not gonna sing this one whatever um uh uh zach has ready to sing that's what we're gonna sing let's stand up together but i wanna i wanna say this as we close thank you guys for being patient we've gone longer than we usually go but it has been worth every second amen and um there's a song you guys have a song that just you know when you're going about your day it's just the kind of your your brain resets to a song and one of them that always you know which one is the one for me it and it's oh god you're my god and i there's three things in there i will ever praise you and i'll seek you and i will learn to walk in your ways the reason we study prophecy the reason we look at it is so we can be better prepared to just be a brilliant light and a vibrant presence for christ in the world where we live where there's people who need hope their lives are broken and many so many people hopeless and wondering they're scared the stuff we've talked about tonight that don's led us through they're frightened to death of that stuff none of it is pleasant when you think about the unraveling of world systems and all that and and persecution and all that but here we are as a light in this world so may you and i and those of us who are following christ maybe we just go out of these doors and remember it's what we do between the services that matters for the kingdom here we gather so we're prepared to go amen we gather so we can go and so let's go and if you're one of those folks tonight that you really never have turned from that darkness and turned your heart to the light of god in jesus christ we'd love to talk to you as we close either grab me or one of the pastors grab us gently but grab us and we would love to introduce you to your savior who loved you enough to bring you here tonight to hear this that you so desperately need let's sing and then we'll go amen let's keep praising him and seeking him and serving him the world needs your witness let's go be that light god bless you dawn thanks again for coming don't forget his resource table out there let's empty that table so he doesn't need to take any of it home with him doesn't have to load up the car and let's go live for jesus god bless y'all this has been a presentation of refuge calvary chapel huntington beach for more information about 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